Pierre Labastie wrote:
> IIUC, this is Makefile syntax. If so, there should be semicolons `;' at the 
> end
> of each line (but before the `\').

The 46 existing invocations of $(_sc_search_regexp) don't have semicolons after
each variable assignment either.

> Otherwise, the shell will be passed
> "require='COPYING' in_vc_files='/path/to/top_srcdir/README$'..." all on one
> line.

That's intentional.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=top/maint.mk#l286

Bruno




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